When Teng con­fronted the head­mistress of the kinder­garten in Se­ta­pak a few days later, the lat­ter ad­mit­ted to ty­ing up her daugh­ter.

"She (the head­mistress) claimed that she did not do any­thing wrong as that was her method of dis­ci­plin­ing the stu­dents.

"She even went on to demon­strate her method by ty­ing up an­other stu­dent," added the 36-year-old mother who has since re­moved her daugh­ter from the kinder­garten and lodged a po­lice re­port on the mat­ter.

She said due to the head­mistresses' ac­tions, her son could have suf­fo­cated had she not in­ter­vened at that time.

Chong said that the head­mistress should have known bet­ter than to re­sort to such dis­ci­plinary meth­ods, es­pe­cially when it in­volved the safety of young chil­dren.